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by waffleiron 1568 days ago
> There's a difference between surviving and thriving.

And you have given no proof that a child can't thrive on a vegan diet. Surely it's not something a public health authority recommends, because people generally aren't vegan.

I can't find any study supporting that a vegan diet for infants and children can't be as healthy as a non-vegan diet. There are always outliers, but you also have children on non-vegan diets that are missing vitamins and nutrients.

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Strict vegan diets, in communities that are studied scientifically, were pretty rare until recently.

We'll have good data in a decade or so.